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Thread #170854   Message #4132364
Posted By: leeneia
14-Jan-22 - 10:56 PM
Thread Name: mystery instrument
Subject: RE: mystery instrument
It's not a crwth. It has too many strings, it doesn't have the gizmo where the strap attaches, and the woman who owned it was a serious violinist and would not have lost the bow. She lived in the same house from 1956 to 2021, and so she couldn't have lost it moving.

Nonetheless, here's a cool video of somebody playing a crwth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yYg_7cm0Rs

In Welsh, w can make an oo sound, so crwth rhymes with root.